A method for a user/an employee in a system to acquire an email account is disclosed in the present invention, including: relating a role-nature email account to a role according to work content of the role in the system, wherein during the same period, one role can only be related to one role-nature email account, and one role-nature email account can only be related to one role; said role is an independent individual not a group/a class, and during the same period, one role can only be related to a unique user, while one user is related to one or more roles; and creating a relation between a user and a role, wherein for any user, a role-nature email accounts related to all roles related to said user are used as role-nature email accounts of the user and/or an employee corresponding to the user. According to the present invention, a corresponding role-nature email account is allocated to an employee while a post is allocated to the employee, such that it is unnecessary to allocate the role-nature email account to the employee separately, thereby reducing the workload of email account allocation.
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3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the role-nature email account of the user needs to be replaced, the relation of the role to the role-nature email account is configured to be cancelled, and the role is configured to be related to a new role-nature email account.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the role-nature email account is an email account of a mailbox application in said system or an email account of a mailbox service provided by a third party.
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: selecting one or more roles as supervising roles, and setting a supervised role for each supervising role respectively, wherein a user related to the supervising role or an employee corresponding to the user is configured to operate the role-nature email accounts related to all supervised roles corresponding to the supervising role.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: relating an individual-nature email account to the user, wherein during the same period, the user is configured to be related to the individual-nature email account, and the individual-nature email account is configured to be related to the user only.
8. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the individual-nature email account is related to the user, the individual-nature email account related to the user is acquired as an individual-nature email account of an employee corresponding to the user.
9. The method according to claim 6, wherein when an individual-nature email account is related to an employee, the individual-nature email account related to the employee is acquired as an individual-nature email account of a user corresponding to the employee.
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